| Frequency Ass Bandit
I Wanna Be A Sex Symbol On My Own Terms
C Thomas Howell As The "Soul Man"
Mondrian Was A Liar
Swimming The Channel Vs. Driving The Chunnel
...from the Botch "We Are The Romans" album. I am particularly fond of the I Wanna Be A Sex Symbol On My Own Terms song title as it best expresses a force behind the absolute core of my being. Kidding! Kinda. Sorta. There are few sights I find more uplifting than a flawed(looking) person obviously getting serious ass. Prince and Stephen Hawkins come to mind at the moment, but I'm sure I can think of scores more. | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment   |
| | Time: | 10:14 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/juicy/cutealiens/anxious_a.gif) anxious |
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| | we are getting free cable which happens sporadically (when the good lord decides to bless all his children). the cable coupled with the heat and a sudden surge of free time has lead me to adopt the coach potato lifestyle. i am currently hooked on the style channel's how do i look even though it saddens me to watch people's identities and personal histories being erased by finola hughes and their supposedly well-intentioned friends. episodes of "how do i look" remind me of irresponsible urban renewal. one gang of friends tried to throw out band t's that a subject had been collecting for years on accounts that the t's were unflattering. instead, her friends apparently want her to mimic the style of b-rate celebrities, or look like a member of the popular clique at a church in the midwest. i concede that intervention is sometimes necessary. last night's subject had a weird affinity for laura ashley prints. she also owned a pair of houndstooth stirrup pants with pleats. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| lately i am being entertained by following links to the trashy pics on the LA times homepage.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-eunuchs7jun07,0,7718585.story?coll=la-home-headlines
"They are eunuchs or otherwise transgendered people by birth, accident or choice. Something between male and female, they are shunned by Indian society as unclean. Many make a rough living through prostitution or by crashing weddings, birthday parties and other festive occasions, threatening to disrupt the celebrations with vulgar behavior and to bring bad luck unless they are paid off.
And now they were in my living room..." | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| i can't believe this is for real...
It is not often that a fateful tragedy occurs that centers around a food, but unfortunately, in 1919, one such event did occur. The event is referred to as the Great Molasses Flood and occurred when a molasses storage tank holding over two million gallons of molasses broke, and its sticky content came pouring throughout the city streets of Boston, Massachussetts, traveling as fast as 35 miles per hour and creating a thirty foot tidal wave of sweetener. Unfortunately, this was not a sweet matter as twenty-one people died and significant amounts of property was destroyed. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| this quote really tickled me. from that badass mofo russell means:
"when i was five or six, grandma twinkle star often used a strange word -- anthropologist. at the time, i didn't know what she was talking about, but she said, more than once, "if an anthropologist comes around asking you about indian things, don't you say anything. if they insist, then tell them lies."
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other cool shit i have come across in my academic isolation chamber:
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/
dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication. open source = awesome!
and http://www.instructables.com | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | i'm being naughty; i'm at work updating my lj. i felt the need to update since i have regressed back to my sullen teenage self this past week. i've been hating on everyone these days! why do people keep misunderstanding me? *emo sob* | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | st etienne "nothing can stop us now" | | Time: | 07:19 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/juicy/cutealiens/hungry_a.gif) hungry |
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| | i am rarely excited to watch movies these days but i am looking forward to catching Brokeback Mountain. i used to laugh at the scene in the trailer when heath or jake (forget which dude) inhales a denim shirt but reviews are convincing me that it's a worthwhile film. i am still convinced that wong kar wai's happy together has one of the most realistic and therefore discomfiting sex scenes ever captured in a narrative film. i'm counting both hetero- and homosexual sex scenes i've encountered. maybe this is TMI for you folks but the opening sequence between tony and and leslie getting busy reminded me most of what my own experiences have been getting it on. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| i got a kick out of this quote: "everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex."
ugh, job and school shit is stressing me out these days. sometimes dealing with census data makes me want to scream and run back to architecture. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 10:28 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/juicy/cutealiens/ecstatic_a.gif) excited |
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| I don't know what brought on recent LA Times coverage of Skid Row but I sure am grateful for it. It's about time.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez16oct16-series,0,3994447.special?coll=la-home-headlines
My senior year "thesis" project explores the greening of downtown Los Angeles neighborhoods to accommodate the influx of middle to upper income residents. I could develop innovative design solutions for pocket parks but what to do about the homeless population that crowds current downtown green space? Even if we increase the number of supportive housing units in Skid Row, studies find that certain segments of the homeless population don't even want to be housed. My project will most likely end up becoming a study of homeless people and parks, not just parks.
There is all sorts of madness going on in downtown, btw, that I'm all privy to cuz of my job. Huge block-sized mixed use development galore. All those paved parking lots are becoming three, four story buildings. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | all i want : joni mitchell | | Time: | 10:15 pm |
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| joni joni joni. i just ripped blue off my friend's massive music collection. i swear, nothing brings me back like the tunes of yesteryear. i owned a cassette tape of blue when i was a 17 year old crunchy grunge rock chick with bad hair. i don't think i've heard the tunes of blue since, so when i gave it a whirl during work on monday, i couldn't help but choke up.
s and i had a poignant AIM convo earlier this evening. we talked about our crying trends and how they were on different tracks. he said he wept far less now than he did when he was younger. meanwhile, i never used to cry until recently. i feel like i've finally reached an age where i've accumulated enough of a backlog of depressing memories -- death, terminal illness, that tsunami shit, et al -- enough reflection can only lead to one feeling a bit defeatist about things. not that i'm a leaking faucet. i'm just not as foolhardy as i used to be.
yikes. sorry for the sad little lj entry. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Soft n' Ez, Tremor : Japancakes | | Time: | 02:52 pm |
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| I don't know what the hell i've been doing with my time these days. I went to my 2nd tattoo removal session this morning. For your info, tattoo removal is painful beyond imagination, teeth-grittingly painful. Then I went to City Hall which is in a state of complete chaos with James getting booted out and Anthony beginning his term.
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Random quotes from surfing yee old world wide web:
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
"You don’t truly understand pop music until you’ve joined a fan club. It gives shape to the yearning for community ... and the feeling that Song X was written for you, and that by understanding Song X, somebody might gain access to the unmapped complexities of your soul."
Regarding the latter quote, do you think it is sad/pathetic that I still feel this way about certain songs at the ripe old age of almost 28?
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Over brunch last Saturday, some friends and I devised a diet competition plan that we're blogging about. Read up if you are intensely bored. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | feel the pain : dinosaur jr | | Time: | 04:08 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/juicy/cutealiens/restless_a.gif) restless |
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| "The Supreme Court ruled today, in a deeply emotional case weighing the rights of property owners and the good of the community, that local governments can sometimes seize homes and businesses and turn them over to private developers. In a case with nationwide implications, the court ruled, 5 to 4, against a group of homeowners in New London, Conn., who have resisted the city's plans to demolish their working-class homes near the Thames River to make way for an office building, riverfront hotel and other commercial activities."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/23/politics/23wire-scotus.html?hp&ex=1119585600&en=5036788eb4cc9d17&ei=5094&partner=homepage
dang. the power of eminent domain creeping over to commercial developments. since when do riverfront hotels count as a public good?
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| | Current Music: | the essential northern soul story | | Time: | 02:25 pm | | Current Mood: | bee in my bonnet |
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| now, what the f*ck is this?? http://www.ravenmagazine.com/
i just got a mass email from them this morning asking to subscribe. it looks like vice magazine, minus the hipster aesthetic. in a word, rilly rilly lame (actually that was 3 words). something about vice magazine chaps my hide...could be their special brand of soul-less subversiveness. as for this raven magazine, i don't understand why they offer pinups of only asian-american and latina women. is their target audience men of color? what about black women et al? i find it incredibly bothersome that this magazine exists. at least maxim doesn't aim to be smart/funny/progressive. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | rock with you : MJ, what up : missy & jay-z | | Time: | 04:51 pm | | Current Mood: | mute |
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| | roomies and i had a "free michael jackson" party on saturday. i dressed up as white diamond's era liz taylor and started losing my voice while preparing for the party. during the party, friends said i sounded off, but sexy like kathleen turner. the following morning, i lost my voice entirely. yesterday, my sexy voice transitioned into the wicked witch of the east, according to a friend i had a brief phone conversation with, before he kindly described the experience of speaking with me as "painful". | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Head On : The Jesus and Mary Chain | | Time: | 03:04 pm |
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| I am writing a paper about corporate responsibility/accountability right now. In my research, I found this passage on a book sleeve:
"Bakan contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality whose destructive behavior, if left unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin."
hehehe. I think I just like the words "psychopathic personality," "scandal" and "ruin" used in the context of an academic econ book. I ran across another analogy at the Walmart conference I attended last week that compared our current market-based capitalist system to the ecosystem, with Walmart as our ecosystem's most well-adapted predator. hehehe. I have been sharing that with everyone these days. | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 11:33 pm | | Current Mood: | academic angsty |
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| | municipalities, constituencies, jurisdictions, stakeholders. these words are like nails on chalkboard to me right now. so ugly they are. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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